Dear Family,
This has been quite the interesting week. It's been a lot colder
lately. On Saturday Elder Dyer and I were out finding for 5 hours
because we didn't have any set appointments and my thighs were frozen by
the time we got home! We ended up coming home just a little early
because my ankle had had enough of walking by the end of the day. We
did find some very kind people who let us in from the cold for a short
time. One guy named Richard let us in and we invited him to church to
which he said he would come, but when we called him Sunday morning he
decided that he didn't want to come anymore. On Sunday we did have a
less-active fellow named Tim Fife come to church though. He is someone
we have been working with for a while now. He is a super nice guy, he
would do anything for you service wise. We didn't have the car this
week and on Sunday morning the thought popped into my head that we
needed to call Tim and ask him for a ride to church, so i followed the
prompting i received. He said he would take us and we invited him to
stay with us for sacrament meeting to which he did! That was exciting.
I have been in the boot now for 4 weeks and i still have another 2
to go. I am counting down the days. It's kind of sad because President
Jergensen has allowed us to have a zone p-day to which we are having
ours with one of my old zones as well on the 21st so i don't know how
much i'll be able to participate depending on what we end up doing. I
do not recall going to that morningside with Jon Bytheway, but i know
that talk that you are referring to. The war chapters talk... it's a
good one. We met a pretty sweet part member family this week named the
Schafers. The husband is a member and the wife is not. They have a 6
year old daughter. The husband really wants to come back into activity
and wants to baptize his daughter next april so we are going to be
working with him for a while. Plus we will be teaching his wife now and
hopefully he can baptize her as well. That would be swell.
I was studying up on faith a little bit this week and spent quite
some time in Hebrews chapter 11. It's kind of like the Ether chapter 12
of the book of mormon. It just gives a lot of examples of faith that
people/prophets have had. One that stood out to me was the example of
Moses.
25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches
than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of
the reward.
What a great example that Moses set by preferring to suffer
affliction with the people of God rather than enjoying the pleasures of
sin for a season. He knew where true happiness came from, through his
faith. Sure sin may bring some temporary pleasure, but long lasting
happiness comes from having faith in Jesus Christ, repenting, baptism,
Receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end. The
reproach of Christ means that he would rather suffer shame or punishment
for Christ and stand as a witness of Him in all things than have all
the riches of Egypt. Just something i've been thinking about lately :)
Love, Elder Peterson
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